[slurm-users] "slurmd -C" reduce by xx GB or yy %

Bjørn-Helge Mevik b.h.mevik at usit.uio.no
Thu Aug 11 06:38:20 UTC 2022


"Eg. Bo." <egonle at aol.com> writes:

> as far as I understand it's good practice to lower the RealMemory
> value reported by slurmd -C by a given amount of GB or by
> percentage.What's the best approach to calculate a given target value,
> for different HW types?

I tend to use a small C program that mallocs and fills a large array,
and see how big I can make the array before the node starts to swap.

-- 
Regards,
Bjørn-Helge Mevik, dr. scient,
Department for Research Computing, University of Oslo

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